Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Dear Me - Abridged

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: Peter Ustinov

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more

Edith Piaf - Biografie - Abridged

By: Thomas Tippner

Narrated by: MATTHIAS ERNST HOLZMANN

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Edith Piaf – Eine Legende! 1915 in Paris geboren, wurde sie bereits kurz nach der Geburt von ihrer Mutter verlassen und wuchs bei ihrer Großmutter auf, die sie halb verhungern lies. Ihr Vater, der in einem Wanderzirkus arbeitete, brachte sie schließlich bei seiner Mutter unter, die ein Bordell betrieb. Ediths Kindheit und Jugend war von Gewalt... Read more

Report from Engine Co. 82 - Abridged

By: Dennis Smith

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Read more

Maybe You Never Cry Again - Abridged

By: Bernie Mac

Narrated by: Bernie Mac

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is todayBy the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie... Read more

Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs - Abridged

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Mike Dodge

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the results from Dave Barry's monumental reader survey, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs is a compilation of some of the worst songs ever written. Read more

El Diario de Ana Frank - Abridged

By: Ana Frank

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de... Read more

The Marauder and His Daughter - Abridged

By: Linda Cunningham

Narrated by: Diedre Eby

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AFTER DISCOVERING HER FATHER'S WAR DIARY, a young girl begins the lifelong journey of understanding how his brutal and miraculous war experience shaped their family and faith while bringing new insight to one of the most ambitious and secretive war missions of World War II. MERRILL'S MARAUDERS became the 172nd recipient of the Congressional Gold... Read more

Shoe Dog - Abridged

By: Phil Knight

Narrated by: Stefan Lehnen

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als junger, abenteuerlustiger Business-School-Absolvent auf der Suche nach einer Herausforderung lieh Phil Knight sich von seinem Vater 50 Dollar und gründete eine Firma mit einer klaren Mission: qualitativ hochwertige, aber preiswerte Laufschuhe aus Japan importieren. In jenem ersten Jahr, 1963, verkaufte Knight Laufschuhe aus dem Kofferraum... Read more

Name All the Animals - Abridged

By: Alison Smith

Narrated by: Alison Smith

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The critically acclaimed, heartbreaking memoir that is at once a gorgeous, profound, and redemptive story of a family holding desperately to the memory of a lost child; and a touching, intelligent, and inspiring coming-out story.

A luminous, true story, Name All the Animals is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family... Read more

Die wahre Geschichte von McDonald's - Abridged

By: Ray Kroc & Robert Anderson

Narrated by: Markus Böker

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Er ist der Mann hinter dem goldenen "M" und einer "Vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär"-Geschichte, die ihresgleichen sucht: Ray Kroc, der Gründer von McDonald's. Nur wenige Unternehmer können wirklich von sich behaupten, dass sie unsere Art zu leben für immer verändert haben. Ray Kroc ist einer von ihnen. Doch noch viel interessanter als Ray Kroc,... Read more

My Life in France - Abridged

By: Julia Child & Alex Prud'homme

Narrated by: Flo Salant Greenberg

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more

Relationships over Rules - Abridged

By: David Hoffman

Narrated by: David Hoffman & Ruby Fay Harris

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Your path to purpose begins with people. Relationships. We know that we need them, but busy schedules, financial pursuits, and self-serving agendas often distract us from the people God has placed in our lives. Overcoming a childhood that lacked true relationships, CEO David Hoffman successfully broke the rules of a transaction-based world by... Read more

American Sucker - Abridged

By: David Denby

Narrated by: David Boutsikaris

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Read more

John Lennon: The Life - Abridged

By: Philip Norman

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the... Read more

Symptoms of Withdrawal - Abridged

By: Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Narrated by: Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

At last, the first memoir from a Kennedy family member—an inspirational, candid, and explosive personal story sure to be one of the most sensational bestsellers of the yearChristopher Kennedy Lawson was born to enormous privilege. But with fame, money, and power came tragedy and heartbreak. In this clear-eyed, sensitive, and compulsively... Read more

Under and Alone - Abridged

By: William Queen

Narrated by: William Queen

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

The Sangamon Story - Abridged

By: Francis Grierson

Narrated by: Kirk Laughead

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Francis Grierson's, The Valley of Shadows, is truly a lost American classic. Written at the dawn of the twentieth century, the author has remarkably captured his adventures and observations as a child growing up on the prairies of Illinois in the years leading up the Civil War, in a region that was neither North nor South; neither for slavery... Read more

I Am the Central Park Jogger - Abridged

By: Trisha Meili

Narrated by: Trisha Meili

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this... Read more

Lita - Abridged

By: Amy Dumas & Michael Krugman

Narrated by: Amy Dumas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Lita™ -- see her just once in the ring and you can never forget it. The breathtaking off-the-top-rope fearlessness that she shows keeps you on the edge of your seat. You simply can't believe she's going to be able to pull off the move, and then Lita™ takes it to the next level. That's her reality, that's why she is a WWE™ Superstar.
Taking... Read more

The Vanished World of Robert Youngson - Abridged

By: Jim Manago

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Writer-Producer Robert Youngson’s seminal compilation documentaries of silent comedy in the 1960s inspired a Renaissance in the legacies of Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, and, above all, Laurel and Hardy as well as other comedians from movies of the teens and twenties. Youngson died young, but his widow, Jeanne, tells author Manago about her late... Read more

O ceramista do Interior - Abridged

By: Roberto Ney Lusvarghi

Narrated by: Adriano

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Em uma tentativa sincera de traduzir tudo que essa belíssima obra significa e proporciona, é certo que se render às páginas de "O Ceramista do Interior" é trilhar uma jornada de iluminação e profundo aprendizado e reflexão, sendo impossível sairmos ilesos do contato com o relato poderoso dessa alma que aqui, para nós, se abre com tamanha... Read more

Blind Faith - Abridged

By: Dennis Love & Stacy Brown

Narrated by: Viola Davis

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Hardship, sacrifice, determination and ultimate triumph make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder.
A motherless child born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, Lula was passed from relative to relative, unwanted and unloved. As a teenager she was sent to... Read more

Ich bin kein Ausländer, ich heiße nur so - Abridged

By: Amir Shaheen

Narrated by: Amir Shaheen

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn ein deutscher Muttersprachler einen arabischen Namen trägt, dann wirft das im Alltag berechtigte Fragen auf. Wenn jemand wie Amir Shaheen dann auch noch Schriftsteller ist und Bücher veröffentlicht, na, dann liegt es doch nahe, wissen zu wollen, ob seine Texte übersetzt werden – ins Deutsche! Amir Shaheen schildert pointiert und... Read more

My Father, My President - Abridged

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more